Posts
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Java and Hipster
First experiences as a new employee of Solita... and some Java Hipsterism
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Microservices FTW
How to boot up and get some feedback fast
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Monster fighter
A developer's guide for surviving a large and long running project.
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When to Refactor
How to maintain the balance between adding new features and refactoring existing code? Here are some rules of thumb for choosing when to refactor and how much.
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Deconstructing a tweet-sized language
140 characters might not seem like much, but it's enough to implement an interpreter for a simple programming language. This post explains how.
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Publishing to Maven Central Repository
The Central Repository is the de facto place for publishing JVM-based open source libraries. Publishing your own libraries there is not hard and it will benefit your users.
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Unit tests, for good
In an opening keynote to Reaktor dev day 2014, Erik Meijer declared unit tests a general waste of time. Mr. Meijer's routine use of overstatement offers a really nice target for nitpicking.
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Simple Deployment Pipeline
It is possible to create a professional deployment pipeline and do Continuous Delivery (CD) with few simple tools. When you remove the hype, CD and DevOps are not magic. I will present a real example from our project to show what can be achieved with a minimal effort by ordinary developers. Quite a lot actually.
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Sharing client-side components with Bower
You need to build an app which uses a certain type of component. You recently built one for another project. Extracting it is a piece of cake but how are you going to share it between the two apps?
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Why infographs have an edge?
I explain 3+1 aspects that make interactive infographs superior to traditional document based reporting.
